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Two genera are included, Asterococcus and Hemophilus. 

 Hemophilus. A name used by Winslow et ah (1917, p. 561) for the 

 fourth genus of the family Bacteriaceae with the following discription : 



Minute rod-shaped cells, non-motile, without spores, strict parasites, growing 

 best (or only) in the presence of hemoglobin, and in general requiring blood serum 

 or ascitic fluid. Gram-negative. 



The type species is Hemophilus influenzae (Pfeiffer). 



Buchanan (1918, p. 44) used the same definition. The "Committee** 

 (1920, p. 212) added to the diagnosis "sometimes thread forming and 

 pleomorphic." 



Castellani and Chalmers (1919, p. 933) use the spelling Haemophilus 

 q.v. 



Bergej^ et al. (1923, p. 268) includes the genus as the first in the 

 tribe Hemophileae with the description: 



Minute rod-shaped cells, sometimes thread forming and pleomorphic. Non- 

 motile. Strict parasites growing best (or only) in the presence of hemoglobin 

 and in general requiring blood serum, ascitic fluid, or certain growth accessory 

 substances. Gram-negative. 



Henrillus. A name given by Heller (1922, p. 15) to the fifth genus 

 of the Closiridioideae with the following description: 



Clostridiodeae that do not liquefy gelatin. Thej'^ produce acid and gas in meat 

 medium. They clot milk readily and attack many sugars, producing much acid. 

 Gram-negative or gram-positive slender rods with terminal oval spores. Their 

 colonies in deep agar are large, lenticular and opaque. Very common in soil, 

 often found in wounds, do not invade tissue. 



Tj^pe species H. terlius (Bacillus tertius Henrj') as described by Henry. Henry 

 believes that the conception B. tertius applies to a group and not to a species. 

 His nine strains which may be taken as a type split the monoses, bioses, mannose, 

 xylose, starch, dextrin, glycogen, salicin, amygdalin and mannitol. 



This tj'pe was described by von Hibler v,-ith the number IX. Fleming (Bac. Y), 

 Rodella (1902) (Bac. Ill), Robertson (1916 a), Mcintosh, Adamson (1919) and 

 the Committee and Weinberg and Seguin also describe it. Choukevitch (1913) 

 identifies spherical sporulating organisms with Rodella III. The original Rodella 

 III did not clot milk and should perhaps be associated with Flemingillus. 



Hiblerillus. A name proposed by Heller (1922, p. 17) for the ninth 

 genus of her tribe Closiridioideae. The description is: 



Closiridioideae that do not liquefy gelatin. They do not clot milk. Large 

 gram-positive rods which form more or less reluctantly long ellipsoid spores; they 

 may form orgonts. Colonies in deep agar, small and lenticular or with fine radia- 



